Amy Nicholson

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For 775 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 52% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 46% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Amy Nicholson's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 63
Highest review score: 100 Frankenstein
Lowest review score: 0 Melania
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 383 out of 775
  2. Mixed: 325 out of 775
  3. Negative: 67 out of 775
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
    The first hour of EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert convinces you that the King is the greatest entertainer who ever lived. By the end of it, he’s a god.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Danny Collins
    This movie is a narrow character piece that shows Pacino wrestling to reveal layers in a man who's worried he might actually be hollow. He and Fogelman string together dozens of small, perfect moments.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Captain America: The Winter Soldier
    The script is solid, and the fight scenes are excellent.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
    The Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs franchise takes its comic cues from The Muppets and Pee Wee's Playhouse, kids' shows that ripen as their audience matures.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    If You Were the Last
    Hooray! A romantic comedy that revives the screwball formula where two people talk themselves silly — and we only had to go to the end of the solar system to make it happen.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Superior
    It is the film’s shaggier pleasures that leave an impression, particularly its soundtrack of ’80s electro disco and a physically shaggy ice-cream parlor manager (played by Stanley Simons) who is too stoned to notice that his new employee is two different people.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Mood Indigo
    Mood Indigo is bitter candy, a heartbreaker that uses sugar as a trap.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Biosphere
    I can say without hyperbole that there are conversations in this movie that I have never heard before (and refuse to spoil). Better, I can confirm that Brown — the straight man to Duplass’s comic relief — delivers his half with conviction.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
    McCormack is fantastic in a role so subtle it could appear flatlined and phony if people aren’t playing attention.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Man from Reno
    Though it ticks on too long, watching Fujitani's fascinating sleuth overestimate her skills is as satisfying as a mug of hot matcha on a soul-chilling night.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    12 O'Clock Boys
    What lingers in Nathan's documentary isn't the swaggering trails of diesel fumes. It's the sadness of watching Pug narrow his options.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Everyone Else
    Smart, empathetic and wholly believable.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    The Moment
    Even if you don’t know her music, the film still works an acidic sketch of fame.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    The Breaker Upperers
    It’s a terrific showcase for the duo and their entire cast, which, besides a pop-up bit from Clement, is curated from a local talent pool that Hollywood has yet to spelunk. After this, it should.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Crimson Peak
    Though this movie waltzes to its own strange rhythm, del Toro hits every note.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
    It’s “The Bachelorette” wed to “The Iceman Cometh”: the setup is staged, but the tears are real.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    28 Years Later
    Tonally, it’s an ungainly creature. From scene to scene, it lurches like the brain doesn’t know what the body is doing. Garland and Boyle don’t want the audience to know either, at least not yet.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Goodrich
    Keaton’s an old pro at getting audiences to love a well-intentioned jerk, and the script gets good chuckles out of his inconsiderate attempts at generosity.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Sisu: Road to Revenge
    Helander and editor Juho Virolainen pace the carnage like slapstick. They have a nimble rhythm for how many times a victim can dodge disaster before splattering. The violence is so big that it becomes comedy, even getting us laughing at a severed head, twice.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Saltburn
    Fennell has an ear for cadence, and her editor, Victoria Boydell, has impeccable shock-comic timing. The film is put together with precision.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    When Evil Lurks
    This is a film that delights in unspoken terrors and audience misdirection.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Ex Machina
    It's a smart film about the shrinking divide between man and robot. It's also a hoot, an anti-comedy where all of the jokes double as threats, and vice versa.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical
    For a film that takes this much glee in cruelty — Matilda is called “a brat,” “a bore,” “a lousy little worm” and “a nasty, little troublemaking goblin” in her first three minutes onscreen — it also includes scenes of genuine loveliness.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    The Amazing Spider-Man
    Meet the new face of superheroes: Marc Webb's totally teenage and totally fun take on the Spider-Man franchise.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Them That Follow
    In the last act, Poulton and Savage’s long fuse explodes, and they get to prove they’ve made a hell of a picture.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
    Stiller balances his big ambitions with small, grounded truths.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    See How They Run
    See How They Run is a retro homage that surprises audiences with giggles and suspense.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Elio
    It’s refreshing to see a romp this spry. Elio isn’t trying to reinvent the spaceship — it’s after the puppyish charm of sticking your head out the window as marvels whiz past.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Final Cut
    Hazanavicius has made a movie that tests our ideas of creative genius.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Amy Nicholson
    Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal
    The gripping documentary Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal shifts the spotlight back to Singer, played in re-enactments by Matthew Modine with dialogue taken directly from wiretaps, to understand how a flip flop-clad former basketball coach rebranded himself as an academic glad-hander for the 1 percent.
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